resilience

Examples of resilience in the following topics:

• Ecosystem Dynamics

  • Ecosystems are controlled both by external and internal factors; they can be both resistant or resilient to ecosystem disturbances.
  • In ecology, two parameters are used to measure changes in ecosystems: resistance and resilience.
  • Resilience is the speed at which an ecosystem recovers to equilibrium after being disturbed.
  • Humans may impact the nature of an ecosystem to such a degree that the ecosystem can lose its resilience entirely.
  • In this example, the forests became less and less resilient over time until the fundamental system equilibrium had changed.